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Good morning! I hope you were like me and got to enjoy some of the beautiful weekend. Gov. David Paterson will appear with Federal Education Secretary Arne Duncan in the Capitol at 10 a.m., so I’ll be there. In the mean time, here are some headlines…

Fred LeBrun on Judith Kaye’s reports on Gov. David Paterson: “What we read is depressing and hugely contradictory. We see a semi-clueless bumbler who doesn’t quite know what’s going on around him until alarm bells go off, better suited to a British sitcom than the governor’s mansion. And then there’s this recurring tendency, it would seem, to want to rewrite history to avoid accountability.” (TU)

The Daily News endorsed Andrew Cuomo for governor. The endorsement hardly lauds Cuomo, but rather belittles his field of potential GOP opponents before concluding “Cuomo, thus, stands alone as worthy of The News’ endorsement. In the coming weeks, there will be more to say about his plans, his strengths and weakness and the expectations that he must fulfill. He and New York would have benefited from a bracing contest. But that wasn’t to be.” (DN)

New York City Council members Dominic Recchia and Lew Fidler make the most from outside jobs. (NYP)

CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo, in a Vanity Fair profile, about stock market investors: “Andrew Cuomo said something to me once, and I think it rings true. ‘People will go back in the water when they know the shark is dead.’ ”

In case you were wondering, as I was: “I don’t know what Sarah’s doing, [but] I have no desire to be president of the United States — zero desire,” Beck said. “I don’t think that I would be electable.” (Politico)

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